Example sentences of "take [noun sg] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 2 | Equally , group affiliation provides a source of mutual support for companies in financial trouble when group banks take responsibility for coordinating rescue packages . |
| 3 | Such organization naturally involves centralization and differentiation of leadership and authority ; so that those who take responsibility for coordinating the actions of many others must have a different status in important respects from those who are essentially in the role of carrying out specifications laid down by others ’ . |
| 4 | Higher education , though , is a matter of getting students launched on a process of self development , in which they take responsibility for enlarging and deepening their own consciousness . |
| 5 | Ideally , we should like the government to ensure that the economy is on the Pareto-efficient frontier , shown in Figure 15–2 , but take responsibility for making the value judgement about which point on this frontier the economy should attain . |
| 6 | Many bands now take responsibility for advertising their gigs , and these posters encourage these self-help initiatives . |
| 7 | The districts collect the rubbish … take responsibility for housing … and look after certain environmental services . |
| 8 | It sustains the flow of rivers , from which we take water for drinking and many industrial uses . |
| 9 | If we provide information which is already known to the receiver , then we are too long-winded ; if we take knowledge for granted , we are too brief . |
| 10 | It 's amazing how we take food for granted . |